Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice Series General editor: Charles F. Wellford Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology Ruth Triplett, Editor Draft Criminology in China 1 Bill Hebenton and Susyan Jou 1 Pinyin romanisation of the Chinese written script is used where appropriate in this chapter. The question of how to transliterate Chinese into English is a vexed question. The ‘pinyin’ system developed in the People’s Republic of China is now largely recognised as the scholarly standard, so we use this in preference to the older Wade-Giles system which, for various reasons, has become somewhat archaic.